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Smoke-free: Eric Birch says electronic cigarettes felt strange at first but they were instrumental in
helping him quit a 40-year habit.
Photo: DANIELLE STREET
Breaking a habit
By DANIELLE STREET
The battery powered electronic devices convert
liquid nicotine into vapour, mimicking smoking.
HOW IT WORKS
Electronic cigarette
1. Device is activated
when user inhales 2. Atomiser heats
up liquid in
cartridge
3. Vapour is
produced and
the indicator
lights up
Indicator light
Micro-processor
Electrical connector
Atomiser
Cartridge
Replaceable cartridge
Stores flavoured liquid
which contains propylene
glycol and varying
amount of nicotine
Rechargeable
battery
Metal mesh
Sources: Cignature; Action on Smoking and Health
K.Pong, C. Inton 12/06/2013
HARD core smoker Eric
Birch stubbed out his
40-year habit with the help
of electronic cigarettes in lit-
tle more than a month.
The 53-year-old construc-
tion worker says his lifelong
addiction worsened after his
marriage break-up a few
years ago and he knew he
had to do something about it.
A 30-gram pouch of
tobacco, which is about 40
cigarettes when you roll
them up, would last me
about four days. After the
split it would only last me
two days.
So I rang up Quitline and
they sent me all the usual
stuff, but I felt miserable,
because I needed something
in in my hands, he says.
Mr Birch was put onto
e-cigarettes as part of a
world-first study being con-
ducted at the University of
Auckland into the effective-
ness of the battery-powered
devices as an aid to quit
smoking.
More than 650 people are
participating in the study
which compares e-cigarettes
to the more traditional nico-
tine patches.
E-cigarettes look similar
to regular cigarettes and
work by vaporising liquid
nicotine, delivering a mist to
the airways when users
draw on the mouthpiece.
They give a nicotine hit
without the other toxins
found in tobacco products.
A third of the study par-
ticipants received patches.
Two-thirds were given
e-cigarettes -- some with nic-
otine, and the rest with only
water vapour.
Participants were un-
aware which kind they had
been given.
Mr Birch says whatever
kind of e-cigarette he
received worked a treat.
It felt a bit strange at
first, but then I thought bug-
ger it, I m doing this for me,
I don t care what anyone else
thinks, he says.
I used to be one of those
smokers that would wake up
coughing every morning.
That was what would
wake me up and the first
thing I would do is cough-
cough, coffee and cigarette.
Then cough-cough again.
Now I don t cough in the
morning, I sleep well, I can
taste food. That s a very big
difference.
He says his two sons are
rapt in the change and he
saves about $120 a week.
Michael Colhoun from
anti-smoking action group
ASH says there is mixed glo-
bal opinion about the
e-cigarettes, which are popu-
lar in Europe and Asia.
Some say it is a great way
to quit smoking and others
say it is just a replacement
for smoking, he says.
We would certainly like to
see some evaluation of
e-cigarettes, and we would
like to see a sensible
approach.
So if this research can get
us more information then
that s great.
Mr Colhoun says the prod-
uct has fallen into a grey
area in New Zealand.
Because they are not a
tobacco product they are not
governed by tobacco law. You
could smoke them on a
plane, on a bus, in a club, he
says.
They are also not break-
ing advertising laws, so you
could see them on billboards,
on TV and in magazines, so
all the advertising laws we
have fought for over the last
20 years come into question,
he says.
Associate professor Chris
Bullen says results from the
university study are due in
September and will help
inform international debate
and policy on e-cigarettes.
If shown to be effective,
these devices could help
many smokers as a safer
alternative to tobacco smok-
ing, and an alternative
smoking cessation aid to the
standard nicotine replace-
ment products.
E-cigarette receptacles
without nicotine are avail-
able for sale in New Zealand.
Phone Quitline on
0800 778 778 for information
on quitting smoking.